Chapter 28: Read Letters & War

Seeing him touching his face, Qu Qing hurriedly stopped him and subconsciously

said, "Don't touch it with your hands, there are a lot of bacteria on your

hands."

"Bacteria?" Not only was Hua Zizhou confused, but several others looked at him

with incomprehensible eyes.

Qu Qing remembered that they were ancients, and after a while, he explained:

"It's just that your hands are very dirty, if you always touch your face, the

bad things on it will be infected on your face, and your face should be

carefully protected. ."

Speaking of this topic, he asked curiously, "How long has your face been like

this?"

Hua Zizhou turned his face slightly and replied, "It's probably been a year or

two. I wasn't like this before, I just don't know why..."

Qu Qing felt that his mood was a little low, so he comforted: "It's okay, but

it's just acne, I've had it before, and most people will go through this

period, so they have to insist on treatment, take good care of it, and it will

be better soon. Yes, it's not a terminal illness."

Jiang Orion also interjected: "I've seen people grow older, isn't this going

to get better when they're old?"

"That's too careless, my mother... My mother told me since I was a child that

the face is the face of a person, so you must take good care of it."

Hua Zizhou didn't want to be treated, he lowered his head and said: "The

doctor said that it can be treated, but it needs a lot of money to drink

medicine, so let's forget it..."

"How can this be forgotten?" Qu Qing said to him with a serious face, "You

spend money when you spend it, and those unqualified people in the province

always attack you with your appearance. Is there a doctor in the village that

you can see? ?"

In fact, a few days after I came to this world, I occasionally encountered

children who were playing wildly in the mountains and fields. When those

children saw Hua Zizhou, they kept pointing at his appearance and calling him

ugly. He would keep his head down and follow behind him without saying a word.

He didn't have the ferocity of beating people in the middle of the night. He

looked quite pitiful. The kitten would always cry because of the popularity.

Although Qu Qing would drive those children away. , but in any case, I still

feel a little uncomfortable.

Hua Zizhou didn't expect him to be very decisive, and answered uncertainly,

"Yes..."

"That's great, I'll go back to the doctor in the evening and ask how much it

costs." Qu Qingda had the attitude of going as soon as he said it.

Hua Zizhou was a little unsure, but seeing Qu Qing's appearance, he felt that

Qu Qing was really willing to spend money for him.

Jiang Orion on the side heard their conversation and said to Hua Zizhou

jokingly: "Brother Qu Qing is so kind to you."

Hua Zizhou was a little shy, and glanced at Qu Qing quietly. When Qu Qing

looked back at him, he quickly looked away.

Jiang Orion looked at Hua Zizhou, recalled his terrible appearance that night,

and thought complicatedly in his heart: This person usually looks like an

ordinary brother who is weak and weak and has no offensive power, but he

didn't expect that in private...

It's been a day, and he is still complicated, but in fact, thanks to Hua

Zizhou, he knows what he should do.

This afternoon, Hua Zizhou was full of expectations that his face would be

completely better, and Qu Qing would also like his appearance, but he was

afraid that the money for medicine would be too much, and the family couldn't

afford it.

For Qu Qing, this is just a small episode, and the important thing right now

is to get the farming done.

After Jiang Orion joined in, the efficiency of work has doubled visibly to the

naked eye. If it goes well, one mu of potatoes can be planted today.

Several people sweated for a while, and when they were tired and resting, they

saw the village chief pulling a cow not far away, followed by the sound of a

young man carrying a plow, greeting them from a distance.

"Qu Qing, I said it's been three days since you were a child. Didn't I ask you

to borrow a plow? I saw that you wouldn't come, so I asked my son to bring it

to your house."

Qu Qing was flattered and said: "Village Chief, you are too polite. I thought

that your house should not be used up, so I plan to ask again tomorrow."

"It's okay, I brought it to you today, you can use it, and by the way, you can

plow another mu of land in your family." After talking to him, the village

chief said hello to Jiang Hunter, and then pulled Guo Niu tied it to the tree

first, and pulled Qu Qing aside by himself.

"Actually, I'm here today, not only to deliver cattle, but also to ask for

your help with another matter."

Qu Qing thought to himself, no wonder the village chief is so enthusiastic,

but looking at it this way, I am afraid it is not a small job, but he probably

cannot refuse, because he really needs a cow: "The village chief, you are

really too polite. , what can I do for you, just speak up."

"That's right," the village chief took out a letter from his pocket and handed

it to Qu Qing, "this is a letter from my eldest son who has served in the

military for 20 years. In the past, when he sent a letter, I would always walk

on the road. Going to the town all day and night to ask the gentleman to know

what is written in the letter, but now there is a literate person in the

village, so I came to ask you, saving me a day and a night of effort, and also

helping you by the way. Busy, isn't it the best of both worlds."

Qu Qing thought that the village chief was too good at talking. No wonder he

was able to stand out as the village chief in this village. After saying yes,

he typed the letter and read it. The village chief looked at him eagerly:

"What is written in the letter?"

After reading it, Qu Qing said with a smile: "In the letter, he said that the

war has completely ended. If everything goes well, he will be able to come

back in two months, so don't worry about it."

The village chief took out his pipe, rolled up the dry cigarette, lit a fire

stick and took a deep breath, and said three times in a row: "It's good that

you can come back safe and sound, thank you, Qu Qing, this is a ** war. It's

finally over, it's over."

Qu Qing didn't know that there was a war here. In fact, he felt that the war

was very far away from him, but judging from what the village chief said just

now and the information he had learned in the letter, it seemed that the

country where he was in this world had already started. It was a war that

lasted no less than twenty years, and Hua Zizhou's father seemed to have died

in the battle, but other than that, he didn't know anything about it.

The village chief looked a little sad, and Qu Qing wanted to know more

information, so he said, "Yeah, this battle has been fought for too long, and

I don't know how many people died, it's amazing that Ling Lang is still alive.

Blessed."

Jiang Orion next to him also said with a bit of emotion: "Yeah, it's almost

thirty years, and it's good to be alive."

The village chief exhaled a mouthful of blue smoke, which slowly floated

upwards, blocking a thin wisp of smoke in front of his eyes, making the person

look a lot older: "Yes, it's a great blessing to be alive, pitiful. Two of my

four sons died, and the two dead don't even know where their bones were

buried, and I don't even know if they were buried properly, and whether the

bones were eaten by wild animals..."

Having said this, he sighed and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve:

"Oh, even if I am like this, it is already good, at least I have two more, and

some people in the village are dead men. Well, that would be miserable."

Qu Qing did not expect it to be so tragic, and he asked hesitantly, "In our

village... did a lot of people die?"

"Of course, at least half of the males are dead, Huagou'er... Ah, now it's

time to call Hua Zizhou, Hua Zizhou's father, when he was recruited, their

eldest son was only ten years old. , the youngest was still breastfeeding, and

Hua Zizhou couldn't even walk as I remembered at the time, so as soon as I

left, the people were gone, and three months later, the government sent a

piece of clothes back,

Their whole family relies on his mother to pull seven or eight people alone,

and they are so tired that they vomit blood and dare not stop working for a

day. Not only his family, which other family has not received the clothes of

the dead from the government? In fact, the only family in the entire village

where no one died on the battlefield is your family, Qu Qing, but your father

spent a lot of money to get through the relationship. Now the rest of the

village are either old, weak, sick and disabled women like me, or children who

were bare-ass back then. "

After listening to Qu Qing, the expression on his face was complicated and

surprised. He didn't expect this village to be so miserable, and when he saw

Hua Zizhou's mother for the first time, he simply thought she was a very

heartless woman. , but I didn't expect her to suffer so much.

When Hua Zizhou heard this, he, who had been silent, asked in surprise, "When

did my mother vomit blood? Why didn't I know?"

In fact, according to the customs and rules, when the men are talking, the

family members have no right to intervene, but at this time the village chief

does not care about anything: "She is hiding, how dare you let the little ones

know, I will see it with my own eyes. Once, that was a few years ago."

After listening to it, Hua Zizhou was silent for a long time, and he was

originally blamed for being cruel, but at this time, when he heard that her

mother was living so hard, the resentment in his heart dissipated five points,

and the other five points were still chilling and his mother didn't care

whether he lived or died. look.

The village chief continued: "Fortunately, the war ended five years ago. My

eldest son and the others just followed to guard the border. Otherwise, if the

fight continues, the group of children who have just grown up in our village

will probably die. Alas, after chatting for a long time without realizing it,

I will go home first and tell my daughter-in-law the good news of the eldest

son, and I will leave the younger son here to help you, so that you will not

be able to use the plow."

Qu Qing hurriedly sent him away.

After coming back, we got to know each other initially, and then started to

work.

The village chief's youngest son looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen

years old. When Qu Qing asked his name, he smiled brightly and replied in a

voice that was in a period of change: "You can just call me the youngest, my

family is like this. Yep, I'm not an adult yet, so I don't have an official

name, my father said, after a while, ask a gentleman to give me a name."

After getting in touch, Qu Qing found that he is a very sunny child, and he is

also an expert at work. He is no worse than adults like them. He talks non-

stop, and the movements of his hands are not messy at all. Instead, he is

well-organized and chatted. After a while, he suddenly asked Hua Zizhou: "His

new name sounds very nice, Brother Qu Qing, did you give it to him?"

Not far away, the kitten heard Zizhou's nice name, but didn't hear about

himself, he stood up while squatting on the ground playing in the mud,

carefully hanging his hands in the air, and said, "Of course, my father made

it. The name is the best, Daddy's name is nice, and the name Daddy gave me is

even better! My name is Qu Xin! Honest letter!"

The youngest looked at the cat with different eyes in surprise. He had only

heard that his eyes were different before, but this was the first time he had

seen it with his own eyes. It was really weird, and it was also the first time

he heard his voice. , seeing Qu Qing around him and the others treating this

child as ordinary, he didn't know whether he should talk to him or not, but

looking at Qu Qing, he felt that it would be rude to ignore the child, so he

Said: "It's really nice, and I also hope to have such a nice name."

"Well, you have a good eye, but I have to think carefully about asking my

father to name him. After all, my father is the only literate person in the

village." He raised his chest and said proudly, then turned around. Going to

play their cooking game with Jiang Zhu again.

That's right, under the influence of the villagers, the favor of Qu Qing, and

the education of Hua Zizhou, Xiao Quqing, although he still doesn't know what

literacy is, he can fully understand that his father is a very powerful and He

is a respected person, and as his father's only son, he feels that he needs to

be respected by others, keep his head high, and be an upright man.

Yes, he swelled up.

Qu Qing and Hua Zizhou were immediately taken aback by his unexpected remarks

from the little adults. In front of outsiders, the cat has always been afraid

to see people and dare not speak. At first, people thought that was his

nature. Thinking that in just a few days, he dared to speak to outsiders

confidently, and even said the same words as adults. Now that I think about

it, the second time I see him, I think this child is very good at talking. I

am afraid this is his real character.

After being surprised, Qu Qing laughed and hugged the cat and kissed his face,

and then rubbed his face hard: "Little cat, you are so cute, how can you be so

cute!"

The other people also couldn't help laughing a bit, the youngest couldn't

understand why, but they also laughed.

Although life is sometimes hard, it always brings happiness to people

inadvertently. Qu Qing feels that having such a lovely child can soothe the

tiredness of people's bodies and minds, and make people regain courage to

welcome a new day.

He wondered if his mother had the same thoughts as he is now when he brought

him with him back then.